Summiting Kilimanjaro, And It’s Only Friday Morning

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Kilimanjaro may well not be the challenge that is Everest or K2 (or reading Finnegan’s Wake), but I’ve go through Into Thin Air, and I assure you, if I’m going to hike any continent’s highest mountain peak, I’m going to choose the 1 the place I can put on shorts and a t-shirt all through most of the trek.

But, as observed in this write-up (a best Friday read through: extended-kind, escapist, has nothing at all to do with function) about one particular guy’s adventure up the mountain, Kilimanjaro is no walk in the park (it’s estimated that only forty% of the 22,000 climbers who attempt the climb yearly make it to the summit).

As the writer recounts on the morning of the final ascent: “We progressed up the switchbacks for a good four hours, stopping only briefly simply because of the cold. No 1 took any photos. I felt my heart laboring, and attempted to repress irrational fears of it exploding in my chest.” I can relate, I from time to time have the exact same feelings on the subway during my commute in the morning.

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